Dad went over to the shop yesterday to get ready to pull the motor. He pulled the radiator, mufflers, driveshaft, alternator, etc.

He also pulled the spark plugs because he was starting to un-bolt the torque converter and he couldn't get the motor to turn over much so he thought he may need to pull the plugs to let out the compression but here's a picture of what he found. He said it would turn about 60 degrees and then lock up so may have to pull the motor with the converter still bolted on.

I was hoping I would get lucky like it did this fall when I blew the motor and not have any damage to the heads except for a bent valve it 2 but this is looking like I may have some head repairing to do.

This plug is out of #8 and I thought the hurt cylinder was 6 because that is the one with the very loose intake pushrod. There was also a loose pushrod on #3 intake. So I figured those would have bent valves.

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